Rustle... rustle...
In the gloomy forest, the dense bushes shook.
A longsword poked out from the bushes. After a few swings, it chopped away the branches blocking the path.
Falan withdrew his longsword, looked around warily, then waved to the teammates behind him.
The group slowly emerged from the bushes...
Before them was a scene of utter devastation.
Moss hurried forward a few steps, stopped, turned, and said to Falan beside her:
"This is the place."
"Ah, it really is a gruesome sight."
Falan looked at the scene before him and nodded involuntarily, a complicated expression surfacing on his face.
Blood-red paint had been carelessly splashed across the messy green canvas.
Tree trunks forcibly torn apart, bushes covered in trample marks...
Falan's mind began analyzing at high speed, gradually reconstructing the scene before him.
"There were many of them. Humanoid. They look like monsters with powerful physical strength."
Falan noticed a palm print sunk deep into the bark of a fallen tree.
As a Shield Guard, he had often been on the front line during his years of fighting monsters.
It could be said that he was the most professional person in the team when it came to judging a monster's size.
Judging from the size of the mark, a phantom of a monster soon appeared in Falan's mind.
"The monster that appeared here earlier was probably over three meters tall..."
Shalina lightly sniffed the air, her eyes sweeping across the surrounding bushes.
The smell of blood still filled the air, and liquid that had yet to fully coagulate could be seen among the leaves.
Listening to Falan's analysis, Shalina also voiced her discovery.
"The blood hasn't dried. Even in an environment with a lot of moisture, it could only have been three or four hours ago at most."
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